Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it
Thoughtless, dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting, you would soon find out
You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.